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´UNIVERSITE DE GRENOBLE
`THESE
pour obtenir le grade de:
´DOCTEUR DE L’UNIVERSITE DE GRENOBLE
Sp´ecialit´e: Physique de la mati`ere condens´ee et du rayonnement
Arrˆet´e minist´eriel: 7 aouˆt 2006
Pr´esent´ee par
Ludovic Howald
Th`ese dirig´ee par Jean-Pascal Brison
pr´epar´ee au sein du Service de Physique Statistique, Magn´etisme et
Supraconductivit´e (SPSMS)
´dans l’Ecole Doctorale de Physique, Grenoble
Interactions entre la supraconductivit´e et la
criticit´e quantique, dans les compos´es
CeCoIn , URhGe et UCoGe5
Th`ese soutenue publiquement le 11 f´evrier 2011,
devant le jury compos´e de:
Dr. Claude BERTHIER
Laboratoire National des Champs Magn´etiques Intenses (Pr´esident)
Prof. Hermann SUDEROW
Universidad Auto´noma de Madrid (Rapporteur)
Dr. Christoph MEINGAST
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Rapporteur)
Dr. Jean-Pascal BRISON
´Commissariat l’Energie Atomique (Directeur de th`ese)
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and Quantum Criticality in CeCoIn ,5
URhGe and UCoGe
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Abstract
The subject of this thesis is the analyze of the superconducting upper critical eld
(Hc2) and the interaction between superconductivity and quantum critical points
(QCP), for the compounds CeCoIn5, URhGe and UCoGe. In CeCoIn5, study by
mean of resistivity of the Fermi liquid domain allows us to localize precisely the
QCP at ambient pressure. This analyze rule out the previously suggested pinning
of Hc2(0) at the QCP. In a second part, the evolution of Hc2 under pressure is
analyzed. The superconducting dome is unconventional in this compound with two
characteristic pressures: at 1.6GPa, the superconducting transition temperature
is maximum but it is at 0.4GPa that physical properties (maximum of Hc2(0),
maximum of the initial slope dHc2/dT, maximum of the specic heat jump DC/C,...
) suggest a QCP. We explain this antagonism with pair-breaking eects in the
proximity of the QCP. With these two experiments, we suggest a new phase diagram
for CeCoIn5.
In a third part, measurements of thermal conductivity on URhGe and UCoGe
are presented. We obtained the bulk superconducting phase transition and con-
rmed the unusual curvature of the slope dHc2/dT observed by resistivity. The
temperatures and elds dependence of thermal conductivity allow us to identify
a non-electronic contribution for heat transport down to the lowest temperature
(50mK) and probably associated with magnon or longitudinal uctuations. We also
identied two dierent domains in the superconducting region, These domains are
compatible with a two bands model for superconductivity. Thermopower measure-
ments on UCoGe reveal a strong anisotropy to current direction and several anomaly
under